Andy Bristow
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Andy Bristow
@guards47
Supporter of Doncaster Knights RFC. Enjoy finding peace and calm with a walk in the hills and treating myself to a decent pint of real ale. Proud Army veteran.
Doncaster Tham gia Kasım 2013
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When I first graduated and started life in the grown up world, I was taken out for lunch by a senior manager at the firm I’d just joined.
This was my first client facing role and was a big step forward for me.
The senior gave me a piece of advice that I’ve never forgotten. He said never try and close a deal by bad mouthing the competition. It just brings the whole industry into disrepute.
The more experienced I get the more I realise how right he was.
Bridget never had the chance to get this kind of advice because the only job she has ever had was a few years working for her mum’s charity.
Now the country is stuck with a SoS who knows nothing about the world she’s in charge of and I’m stuck with a colleague whose best shot at advancing herself is by putting out comments like the one below.
C’est la vie
Thank you to everyone who has come out batting for me. I’ll keep on keeping on 👍
Bridget Phillipson@bphillipsonMP
Reform UK said I was 'bullying' when I pointed out their colleague was jailed for beating up his former partner. Now, they're trying to sneak him back into their party. So I'll say it again: James McMurdock was jailed for beating up his former partner. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@MatthewStadlen @TheHangedMan18 @DPJHodges Grow up Stadlen. If you can’t see that there’s something wrong, then you’re part of the problem.
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@TheHangedMan18 @DPJHodges Why are you answering a question with a question?
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So can we be just be clear? Journalists are alleging that Morgan McSweeney staged the theft of his phone, lied to police, and wasted police time, in order to hide messages to Mandelson? And that the Prime Minister might be implicated in a cover-up? These are extremely serious and defamatory allegations.
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Every day before the Commons sits MPs pray in the chamber. Today it’s at 2.30pm. Someone let @NJ_Timothy know so he doesn’t cr*p himself. I know he has a fear of people praying.
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@Keir_Starmer @RachelReevesMP @Ed_Miliband The meeting isn’t going ahead as the PRA have pulled out due to it not being behind closed doors. keep up.
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If fuel companies try to rip off customers, my government will step in.
@RachelReevesMP and @Ed_Miliband are bringing the bosses of the fuel companies in today, to make sure that customers aren’t losing out because of the conflict in the Middle East.
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@kateferguson4 @LeePitcherMP is that you on the front row prancing around? It’s good to see tax payers money being wasted on this nonsense🙈, unbelievable at a time of crisis this country is facing😡
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@UndisScot Dunno, but whoever’s garden it’s taken from will have had a good tattie crop😂
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@rachelmillward Get them put in Crowborougb Camp then, oh, sorry, what’s that you say, it’s not safe if they stay in your community. Why is it ok for everywhere else to take these illegal immigrants then. Hypocrite.
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There is something rotten in a system when the obvious becomes a provocation, and the most basic boundary a punishable offence. Sandie Peggie did not storm a barricade, preach revolt, or defy science. She did the simplest, most human thing: she objected to undressing in front of a male colleague in a female changing room. That ordinary act of self-respect triggered a two-year campaign of harassment by NHS Fife, a tribunal, and a bureaucracy determined to break the woman who dared to say no.
On Christmas Eve 2023, Sandie walked into a women's changing room and found a biological man inside – a doctor who identified as a woman, and who later told the tribunal he was "biologically female." She complained. Within hours, the doctor accused her of bullying. Within days, she was suspended. Within weeks, the NHS was smearing her as a threat to patient safety. There was no attempt to resolve the issue. No recognition of her right to privacy. No interim measure to separate them. Only punishment and accusation.
The tribunal has now ruled that she was harassed by her employer because she expressed a lawful belief – that sex is real. It reveals a public institution acting as if women's rights were a nuisance to be overridden, and dissent a form of misconduct. The hospital initially claimed she was the lone objector. But evidence showed many women disagreed with mixed-sex changing and were too scared to say so. A workplace where women whisper their boundaries because speaking them aloud is career suicide is not "inclusive." It is authoritarian and hostile to the very people it claims to protect.
This was not medicine. It was orthodoxy. The NHS behaved as if its first duty was to enforce a belief system, not uphold the law. Sex was treated as negotiable. Reality as optional. Women's privacy as offensive. The institution did not merely mishandle a complaint – it enforced a dogma and punished a dissenter. It even smeared her as a risk to patients, ordered her not to speak about her own case, and dragged the ordeal out for two years in the hope she would break. That is not safeguarding. That is bureaucratic sadism dressed as equality.
And here is the central, nauseating truth: Sandie did not challenge the system. The system challenged her, because it could not tolerate a woman saying the simplest, most ancient word in the human language – no. A nurse asked for privacy. The NHS tried to destroy her. Not because it had to, but because it wanted to – because it has become a system incapable of recognising the difference between a boundary and a threat, between truth and ideology, between a woman asking to undress in peace and a heretic who must be punished. If this is what "inclusion" demands, then inclusion has become the enemy of women – and the enemy of truth.
"And here is the central, nauseating truth: Sandie did not challenge the system. The system challenged her, because it could not tolerate a woman saying the simplest, most ancient word in the human language – no."

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@Nus_Ghani @thetimes Great to see an MP with a sense of humour, who is also exemplary at her job👏👏
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Thank you all, for all the kind messages and unexpected media coverage @thetimes - will be chip paper in no time.
Never one to be told what i can & can’t do - has driven me to being an MP & tomorrow like clockwork I will be back in the Chair in Parliament 🇬🇧

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Just witnessed Ben Leo @GBNEWS apparently celebrating Trumps threat to sue our BBC for £millions! Any perception that this channel is celebrating legal action being taken against our state Broadcaster and huge sums paid by the taxpayer via the BBC, is definitely NOT advisable..
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@smile2jannah If you don’t like it here, you go back to where your heritage comes from. Sounds to me you don’t like where you’re staying at this time so go to where you feel more comfortable.
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@DoncasterKnight Our half, their half🤷♂️. But more info req’d please.
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@cyberbob1uk @FevRoversRLFC Don’t be so complementary😂, the battle should be on the pitch not on the terrace. Childish abuse directed towards women and children should not be tolerated, and policed better by the more mature supporters within the group.
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@FevRoversRLFC Good battle today. Just a shame you have a subsection of fans, old enough to know better, but are obnoxious, abusive, antagonistic retards.
They're a stain on your supporter base
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@SayeedaWarsi Go ask the teacher from Batley how decent, inclusive, and tolerant the community is! Explain to him, and us what a wonderful place it is.
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My husband and I were driving from Dewsbury to Wakefield today and saw an old asian man struggling to walk up a steep hill.
He was being helped by a young white English lady at the side of the road.
We stopped to assist and were told the asian man had collapsed because of the heat and strain of the walk up the hill.
The young lady had called her husband to drive out to pick the man up and take him safely home.
We stepped in and said we would drive the man home which we did and made sure he was settled before we left.
Just a normal day in Dewsbury where communities look out for each other whatever their race, religion or background.
Despite all the poison some politicians, think tanks and media commentators seem to spout on a daily basis the beating heart of my country is decent, inclusive and tolerant and cares for its communities ❤️🇬🇧
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After my stone stack video went viral, there's been a lot of BS floating around 😤 so let me clear a few things up 🎯
Don't worry about the trolls — I’ve got thick skin (comes with being a biker and engineer 🤘😎) — but I think it’s important to set the record straight:
1️⃣ “You’re making money off this!”
💸 Nope. I'm not monetised on Facebook and my YouTube earns about £20/month. I’m not selling merch. A local pub made a few coasters for fun — that’s it. In fact, I’ve lost money taking time off work to speak about issues I actually care about.
2️⃣ “It’s just an ego trip.”
🙅♂️ Not even close. I love the Peak District and want to raise awareness about the damage some irresponsible visitors are causing. That’s the only reason I speak up.
3️⃣ “You don’t even live there!”
🏡 Born and bred in Derbyshire. Been hiking here most of my life and have lived in the Peaks for the past 15 years. Strong in arm, thick in’t ‘ed 💪😄
4️⃣ “You’re not even a Viking!”
🧬 The look + 12% Viking DNA = name stuck 🤷♂️
5️⃣ “You contacted the media for attention.”
📺 Nope again. The media reached out to me after my video blew up. It all snowballed from there.
6️⃣ “You don’t care about this stuff.”
💚 Wrong. I’m here because I love the outdoors and believe in the mental and physical benefits it brings. My fiancée suggested I share my hikes after people started asking for routes — especially those who can’t get out themselves anymore. I care deeply about the Peak District and want to protect it.
To everyone sending kind words and support — thank you 🙏 It means the world.
And to the haters…
As (possibly) Churchill once said:
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
#PeakDistrict #OutdoorLife #LeaveNoTrace #thepeakdistrictviking #ProtectWhatYouLove 🏞️🪨🔥

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